Perhaps like you, I've often tried to convey to folks in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) just how much Wikipedia is actively edited. GLAM institutions are increasingly interested in "digital curation" and I've sometimes displayed the IRC activity at workshops to demonstrate the sheer number of people (and bots) that are actively engaged in improving the content there...with the hopes of making the Wikipedia platform part of their curation strategy.

Anyhow, I'd be interested in any feedback you might have about wikistream.

Very cool. In presentations I usually show the RC, and the click again after few seconds, to show the amount of edits: but this is far better. Thank you.

Aubrey

2011/6/16 Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>: > I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a > little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language > wikipedias in real time: > > http://wikistream.inkdroid.org> > Perhaps like you, I've often tried to convey to folks in the GLAM > sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) just how much > Wikipedia is actively edited. GLAM institutions are increasingly > interested in "digital curation" and I've sometimes displayed the IRC > activity at workshops to demonstrate the sheer number of people (and > bots) that are actively engaged in improving the content there...with > the hopes of making the Wikipedia platform part of their curation > strategy. > > Anyhow, I'd be interested in any feedback you might have about wikistream. > > //Ed > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l>

> I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a > little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language > wikipedias in real time: > > http://wikistream.inkdroid.org>

That's pretty cool -- and having the source all ready to be shared on github is *super* cool. :D Having good starting points for other people to build real-time displays and visualizations on can be a big help in jumpstarting some really cool innovation.

I'd love to see some more active visualization that also include images, and if it's possible to show interactions between multiple people working on the same pages that could be super killer. :)

As noted in this thread already, use of flags to represent languages can be problematic -- there's a nice overview of the issues here: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html On the other hand, flags can be a fine way to represent 'country of origin' in visualizations/reports that estimate where edits are being made from based on IP address etc -- so keep em in mind!

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com> wrote: > That's pretty cool -- and having the source all ready to be shared on github > is *super* cool. :D Having good starting points for other people to build > real-time displays and visualizations on can be a big help in jumpstarting > some really cool innovation.

Thanks!

> I'd love to see some more active visualization that also include images, and > if it's possible to show interactions between multiple people working on the > same pages that could be super killer. :)

By images did you mean images uploaded to the commons, or hitting the API to get an image associated with the page? Or both? I like that idea of showing interactions between people working on the same pages. Since I'm already using redis this might not be too hard to do. I'll have to think about it a little. I also liked SJ's idea of a three column display: all edits, edits >= +-100 characters, edits >= +-1000 characters. Although I'm not sure about the delay part.

> As noted in this thread already, use of flags to represent languages can be > problematic -- there's a nice overview of the issues here: > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html On the other hand, flags can be a > fine way to represent 'country of origin' in visualizations/reports that > estimate where edits are being made from based on IP address etc -- so keep > em in mind!

Ok, I've switched to using the character language code, and increased the number of language channels it is monitoring to 36.